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Not the best track selection possible, April 22, 2000
This review is from: Mojo Hand: Anthology (Audio CD)
This is a problematic release. Great idea, marvelous packaging, provides a career overview of a fabulous artist in one place, the music is almost always excellent, and yet... This has gotten marvelous reviews everywhere I've looked, but no one seems to point out that track selection could have been much, much better. There's an over-reliance on his rockin' early to mid-'50s stuff to the shameful detriment of the recordings immediately after his 'rediscovery' in 1959, and the scarcity of the great Prestige/Bluesville recordings for which Lightnin' is most well known, is positively baffling. The second disc is padded with some tracks notable mostly for their unavailability when this set was issued (since remedied by reissues). I wanted to give the person who selected the tracks thirty whacks with my mojo hand. If you want only one Lightnin' disc (well, there's two here) it's a good purchase, I suppose, but TRUST ME, you'll want more than this. You might as well save yourself the trouble of future duplication of tracks (which will be a problem with Lightnin', anyway!) and just get the originals.
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He's Got the Blues, the Mojo and a Black Cat Bone, May 16, 2010
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I think this compilation of Lightnin' Hopkin's work is of strikingly high quality. If you don't know old Lightnin' this will be a revelation. There are so many great tracks on this (41 with very little filler) that I don't even know where to begin. Lightnin' Boogie and Black Cat Bone of course, Lightnin' Don't Feel Well, Wimmin From Coast to Coast, Fan It, Black Ghost Blues, Mojo Hand Pt 1, and the aforementioned Mr. Charlie parts 1 and 2, these are just the ones that come to mind at first. The expressive quality of Lightnin's voice as a blues singer is second to none (not even Howlin' Wolf) and his guitar work is, as any player will tell you, pure genius in the genuine Delta style and tradition. He was the genuine article, one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived. Jimi Hendrix obviously LOVED him. There's a picture in this compilation of the younger Lightnin' smiling big at the viewer and holding a flask of bourbon to his lips. Lightnin' this bud's for you.
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He's Got the Blues and the Mojo, May 16, 2010
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This review is from: Mojo Hand: Anthology (Audio CD)
I think this compilation of Lightnin' Hopkin's work is of strikingly high quality. If you don't know old Lightnin' this will be a revelation. There are so many great tracks on this (41 with very little filler) that I don't even know where to begin. Lightnin' Boogie and Black Cat Bone of course, Lightnin' Don't Feel Well, Wimmin From Coast to Coast, Fan It, Black Ghost Blues, Mojo Hand Pt 1, and the aforementioned Mr. Charlie parts 1 and 2, these are just the ones that come to mind at first. The expressive quality of Lightnin's voice as a blues singer is second to none (not even Howlin' Wolf) and his guitar work is, as any player will tell you, pure genius in the genuine Delta style and tradition. He was the genuine article, one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived. Jimi Hendrix obviously LOVED him. There's a picture in this compilation of the younger Lightnin' smiling big at the viewer and holding a flask of bourbon to his lips. Lightnin' this bud's for you.
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